Elizabeta Torres

Elizabeta Torres (1977-) was a Puerto Rican-American drug dealer who was well-known for her involvement with the trafficking of heroin and cocaine in New York City. In 2008, she was sentenced to 300 years in prison on drug distribution charges after the FBI compromised her heroin operation.

Biography
Elizabeta Torres was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1977, the daughter of a poor family. Torres was feared at a young age, as she once murdered a man who attempted to rape her. Torres came to New York City as a child, and she was first arrested in 1991 at the age of fourteen for possession of cocaine; she was arrested again two years later for the same crime. In 1994, she was arrested for assault, and again in 1996 for possession of heroin, in 2000 for criminal possession of a weapon, and in 2001 for a criminal sexual act committed against a minor. The NYPD reported that she was believed to be in possession of large quantities of cocaine, marijuana, MDMA, and ecstasy, and that she sold these drugs to street distributors; she was also known to frequent female gyms and tennis courts. Torres was a powerful businesswoman with links to Jamaican criminals in Brooklyn, drug dealers in North Harlem, Irish Mob gangsters in Queens, and The Lost MC, and she became the dominant crime boss in South Bronx during the early 2000s. In 2008, she was convicted on thirty drug dealing charges, with each of them carrying ten year sentences; she was sentenced to 300 years in prison, effectively a life sentence.